When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
BERTOLT BRECHTLove is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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